Nx70v Tcmp Player Help!!!

[sere83]

Hi, i have installed tcmp player on my nx70v clie. All video formats i have tried (avi, mpeg, divx, xvid) alll play correctly however the mp3 sound streams do not. Mp3s do not work on their own either. I have installed the plugin for mp3s and all the plugins in the pack. Can anyone help? i would be unbelievably grateful!!!

[slim8589]

Yep, had the same problem this week and it is an easy fix.

You need to install MCA2

http://www.aibohack.com/clie/modclieaud.htm

follow the instructions.

there are plenty of threads here that deal with the same problem.

One word of advice, make sure you back up as the first time I used it it caused a hard reset but since then no problems.

[RuiDuarte]

Precisely.

[sere83]

Thanx very much!!! worked a treat!!!

[CliePet]

> there are plenty of threads here that deal with the same problem.
Hasn't changed in 2+ years.

FWIW: to my amazement, the MCA info webpage still gets 1500 to 2000 hits a month.
The MCA2 program is still downloaded 300 to 400 times a month (I assume many of those are new users)

I guess the CLIE is still going strong, underground...

[philpalm]

Interesting experiment for me, Installed on my Tj-37 and no luck. But no hard reset just clie file removal. I couldn't figure out how to get aero player to work unless MCA2 was removed. And no TCMP did n't make a peep.....

[CliePet]

> ...Installed on my Tj-37 and no luck.
Please read the instructions -- "Applies to CLIE NX, NZ and TG models only. "

[philpalm]

So Clie Pet is video use just a hobby or a good way to have a cool nerd factor? Changing the subject, which device do you recommend? maybe in order of your preference? For a newbie I guess an IPOd video or a PSP...then a clie NX,NZ and TG....

[totololo]

For video, any modern Palm machine able to run at 300 Mhz allow you to read at 30fps video natively encoded at 480x320 pixels (i don't speak about 320x240 common video upscaled by the player)

At this resolution, video have twice the number of pixels of a video on an iPod and so is 2 times more detailed. This is very very good for aesthetic movies or simply anything with subtitles, a lot more easy to read !

I personnaly use TCPMP on my wonderfull NX80v overclocked to 266MHz with PXAclocker. Obviously i use CliePet's great sound patch.

His sound patch is intended for use with relatively old cliés, the last generations are not concerned, it seems they simply don't need it, the modern sound API is already included.

[CliePet]

>...which device do you recommend?
Too many choices these days for one recommendation.
For general purpose and movie playing the CLIE line (480x320 screen) still stacks up well against the newer generation hard-disk players (iPodVideo, Zune, Archos etc - typically 320x240 screen).
IMHO: The VZ90 remains on top because of the OLED screen.

[totololo]

Hmm, dear CliePet, i have a VZ90V. I don't think it's sooo good for video. Screen colors are wonderfull, it's perfect for a photo frame ... but for video, NX80V is better, i think. Because NX80V plays perfectly videos at 480x320 @ 30 fps, the VZ cannot play these files so smoothly and have some vertical synchro issues.

Actually, i will sell my VZ90, i am very disappointed with this machine.

[CliePet]

You are correct, 480x320 @ 30 fps is too much for the VZ CPU (even worse if coming from a slower CF card)
I recommend 15fps or at most 20fps (at full screen 480x320) for the VZ or TH or UX (all have the underpowered 123MHz CPU).
See this post: http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70005

There are other tradeoffs, so YMMV.
IMHO: I still like the 320x240 (@15 or 30fps) MP4 format for general purpose video. It plays on almost everything (PSP, iPod, CLIE, PC, ...). The CLIE does the auto-scaling.
[getting a little off topic here, probably belongs on the VZ forum]

[totololo]

Hihihi, on the NX, slightly overclocket (266), it works !
I watch some Japanese anime, with subtitles on my Clié, so, higher definition is very important !

[CliePet]

> I watch some Japanese anime, with subtitles on my Clié, so, higher definition is very important !
FWIW/IMHO: the 480x320 @ 15fps format is usually good enough for Anime (more pixels, much slower frame rate). Rarely will you find animation that truely needs 24 to 30fps (most are 12fps or lower). If you miss a single frame, it is probably an encoding issue.